ImperialPrussian
general officer and military attaché Maximilianvon Schwartzkoppen entered the army
in time to take part in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. He
thereafter served on the Great General Staff in Berlin at the rank of
Hauptmann and then became military escort to Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hessen-Darmstadt. Von Schwartzkoppen served as military attaché in
Paris from 1891 to 1897, and it was in this capacity that he became
entangled in the Dreyfus-Affair. Von Schwartzkoppen, who retired as a
Generalleutnant but was later brevetted General der Infanterie, passed
away in 1917 and was laid to rest in Berlin.